Jim, I'd say this bears more than a slight relevance to our hobby! What an awesome idea, preserving and presenting the past in a format that be seen by the mainstream, via a home DVD player, in addition to diehard fans like us. I know several people that will be interested in this. I hope you do more than break even -- the price you set is certainly low enough to attract people with even a passsing interest.
Jim Leonard wrote: > > Sorry to pimp one of my own projects here, but it 1. serves as an explanation > as to why I've been so silent since I created the mailing list, and 2. it has > slight relevance to our hobby: > > After 2.5 years, I have finally finished MindCandy, a double-sided DVD filled > with "demos", which are best described as underground hacker multimedia > artistic programming demonstrations. You can read all about it and download a > trailer at www.mindcandydvd.com. That explains why I've been so slient. The > "relevance" part is the "old-school" side of the DVD, which has a lot of early > PC demos from 1990-1997, which illustrate how ahead of the game industry demos > were -- clever young programmers were pushing PCs harder than game companies > during that time period. Also relevant is the history of demos, explained in > a 16-minute featurette, where I explain that demos were born from software > pirates cracking games and bragging about it. > > So, if you want to help me break even on the project, please feel free to > order one :). <sob story> Otherwise I'll have to start... selling... my > collection... to make ends meet </sob story> ;-) > > Anyway, sorry for the spam, but since many of you know me personally I thought > I'd let you know what happened to me. I should start getting back into the > swing of things in January. > -- > Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.oldskool.org/ > Want to help an ambitious games project? Drop by http://www.mobygames.com/ > Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.demodvd.org/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
